Divergent has a violent edge that its predecessors lack — Dauntless soldiers box, throw knives, shoot guns, and prey on each other with bloody results — but rudimentary schooling is still ...

It’s rare that a movie is as good as the book on which it’s based. It’s even more unusual when it’s better. With the film adaptation of "Divergent," the first novel in Veronica Roth's ...

Divergent: Film Review. ... building scaling and other wild behavior isn’t the choice of free spirits but the requirement of soldiers in training.

Divergent sits in a better position, however, with a compelling hero securely in place and mistakes that can be fixed the next time around — should the filmmakers actually decide to fix them ...